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Ladataan... The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 2008; vuoden 2010 painos)Tekijä: Margarita Engle (Tekijä)
TeostiedotThe Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom (tekijä: Margarita Engle) (2008)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. This book is a poem book related to the fight for independence in Cuba. This poem book reveals beautiful pieces of Cubas troubled past that focus on hidden moments in time. This poetry book is great for 3-8th grade because it can help students in literature and writing while focusing on culture. ( ) The book The Surrender Tree is a story told through poetry. This book utilizes three different characters to tell the story of war, concentration camps, and fighting for freedom. The story has the mindset of a nurse, a young girl who loses everything, and a soldier responsible for capturing escaped slaves. Having a book like this within the classroom gives students a chance to see through different perspectives of both sides of a war. This story shows each of their journeys as they fight to do what they each think is right. This book is really good for middle school students because it introduces the idea of perspective. Every story has a different version which is important to recognize. This would be a very good book for an English class to learn about perspective. The Surrender Tree is a story told through the points-of-view of three different characters in a poetic format that tells of the history of 30 years of going through war and reconcentration camps and fighting for their freedom. With a mix between historical fiction and historical fact, we see the different sides of the war from that of a nurse, a young girl who loses everything and a soldier responsible for capturing escaped slaves. Having a book like this within the classroom gives students a chance to see through different perspectives of both sides of a war and also shows that there are parts of the world that have suffered things they could never imagine. This book was named in 2009 both a Newbery Honor Book and the Pura Belpre Author Award. The Belpre makes sense, but a Newbery Honor? The book tries to tell the story of Cuba's three wars for independence (1868-1898) in free verse, in the voices of fictional and historical characters (such as the healer Rosa la Bayamesa). The poetry is a little too spare and I found myself wanting to know more about the real characters and events depicted. Unfortunately, I don't think this format will inspire much reading about those subjects with its intended audience of young adults. The historical note, chronology, and references provided by Cuban-American Engle at the end of the book are helpful.
Tales of political dissent can prove, at times, to be challenging reads for youngsters, but this fictionalized version of the Cuban struggle for independence from Spain may act as an entry to the form. The poems offer rich character portraits through concise, heightened language, and their order within the cycle provides suspense. Four characters tell the bulk of the story: Rosa, a child who grows up to be a nurse who heals the wounded, sick and starving with herbal medicine; her husband, Jose, who helps her move makeshift hospitals from cave to cave; Silvia, an orphaned girl who escapes a slave camp so that she may learn from Rosa; and Lieutenant Death, a hardened boy who grows up wanting only to kill Rosa and all others like her. Stretching from 1850 to 1899, these poems convey the fierce desire of the Cuban people to be free. Young readers will come away inspired by these portraits of courageous ordinary people. (author's note, historical note, chronology, references) (Fiction/poetry. 12+) Gr 9 Up- Often, popular knowledge of Cuba begins and ends with late-20th-century textbook fare: the Cuban Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Fidel Castro. The Surrender Tree , however, transports readers to another, though no less tumultuous, era. Spanning the years 1850-1899, Engle's poems construct a narrative woven around the nation's Wars for Independence. The poems are told in alternating voices, though predominantly by Rosa, a "freed" slave and natural healer destined to a life on the lam in the island' s wild interior. Other narrators include Teniente Muerte , or Lieutenant Death, the son of a slave hunter turned ruthless soldier; José, Rosa's husband and partner in healing; and Silvia, an escapee from one of Cuba's reconcentration camps. The Surrender Tree is hauntingly beautiful, revealing pieces of Cuba's troubled past through the poetry of hidden moments such as the glimpse of a woman shuttling children through a cave roof for Rosa's care or the snapshot of runaway Chinese slaves catching a crocodile to eat. Though the narrative feels somewhat repetitive in its first third, one comes to realize it is merely symbolic of the unending cycle of war and the necessity for Rosa and other freed slaves to flee domesticity each time a new conflict begins. Aside from its considerable stand-alone merit, this book, when paired with Engle's The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Holt, 2006), delivers endless possibilities for discussion about poetry, colonialism, slavery, and American foreign policy.-Jill Heritage Maza, Greenwich High School, CT PalkinnotNotable Lists
Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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